0 – Severely depressed, suicidal and/or homicidal, immediate inpatient treatment necessary, inability to function (in daily activities)
1 – Severely depressed, somewhat suicidal and/or homicidal, monitoring necessary, inpatient treatment likely necessary, inability to function
2 – Severely depressed, passing suicidal and/or homicidal thoughts, monitoring recommended, inpatient treatment optional, great difficulty functioning
3 – Moderately depressed, passing suicidal and/or homicidal thoughts, monitoring optional, some difficulty functioning
4 – Mildly depressed, passing suicidal and/or homicidal thoughts, monitoring optional, low difficulty functioning
5 – Emotionally numb, in a state of existence, no suicidal and/or homicidal ideations, no monitoring necessary, some ability to function, borderline mood (potential for change to 4 or 6)
6 – Mildly happy, content, no suicidal and/or homicidal ideations, little functioning problems
7 – Moderately happy, upbeat, no functioning problems
8 – Moderately happy, optimistic, positive, no functioning problems
9 – Extremely happy, optimistic, cheerful, positive, “in a good mood,” “feel great,” no functioning problems
10 – Extremely happy, potentially manic, active, energetic, euphoric, ability to function may vary
*A plus (+) sign, used only for numbers below 5, indicate that there is no suicidal ideation.
depression introspection 
I’ve tried several aggregators but always come back to google reader. With its tagging capabilities and “share” features its perfect for my needs. I’ve used Thunderbird. Safari has a built in reader I’ve used. I’ve tried all the major online models but they’r all pretty crappy, with the exception google reader. If you don’t mind a lot of pointless clicking you can just use your blog roll but you’ll waste a lot to time that way. I guess it’s just a question of finding something that clicks for you.
All respect to PJ above, I don’t like Google Reader as much as bloglines. Greader is okay, but bloglines beta (there are two versions: original and beta. The original bloglines is inferior to google reader, I think) is cleaner and less cluttered than google reader. For what it’s worth.
Bloglines is still a feed reader though, and if you don’t like Google Reader you might not like it either.
I’ve been feeling the same way and wondering about this, too. Thanks for the post, Marissa, and the comments, guys. I have google reader, but I even get overwhelmed with that unless I read it every single day, which I don’t!! And I like to comment, too, but like you said, it just gets to be too much! Maybe I’ll give the reader another try…
Thanks for the comments. I’m with etta – I might give Google reader another shot. But Kevin MD posts WAY TOO MUCH!!!
I like simple RSS feed that are fit in firefox browser…I didn’t like either bloglines or google reader…
Feeds in firefox are nice and neat and really fast.